Delivered at the CARICOM 30^th Anniversary Conference on Regional Governance and Integrated Development, University of the

The CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) was adopted fourteen years ago but very little has actually been implemented.  The core of the problem resides in the fact that the Treaty of Chaguaramas is based on the intergovernmental mode of cooperation and thus its provisions are subject to the discretions of national sovereignty.  But the experience of the European Union illustrates that supranational decision-making can accelerate the process of integration in chosen policy domains; that sovereignty is a dynamic concept, divisive, and customizable according to the needs and desires of the participating States.  Intergovernmentalism and supranationalism are reconcilable..[..]

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